Abstract

Unmanned ground vehicles are designed to move across solid surfaces. Some UGVs have been designed for moving heavy loads in warehouses, ports, farms, others are used to transport health equipment, and even for military exploits in areas of surveillance, transportation and rescue operations. Unmanned ground vehicles are counter-parts of unmanned aerial/sea vehicles, performing their tasks excellently where necessary.

The raptor design system is robust and capable of maintaining balance and move over rough terrains. This paper proposes the design of a six wheeled air defense military UGV, capable of autonomously detecting air targets and eliminating the precisely.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Introduction/Motivation

An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is a vehicle that operates while in contact with the ground and without an onboard human presence. UGVs can be used for many applications where it may be inconvenient, dangerous, or impossible to have a human operator present. Generally, the vehicle will have a set of sensors to observe the environment, and will either autonomously make decisions about its behavior or pass the information to a human operator at a different location who will control the vehicle through teleoperation.

The UGV is the land-based counterpart to unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles. Unmanned robotics are being actively developed for both civilian and military use to perform a variety of dull, dirty, and dangerous activities.

It is with this technology that brought up the idea of developing the X4-Raptor; a six wheeled military unmanned ground vehicle capable of carrying out surveillance and rescue operations, also incorporated on it an automatic target and fire system using SONAR and other sensors, having a safe pod for carrying the injured during rescue operations.

This paper will entail three main chapters disclosing the following information:

• Chapter 1: Literature review, which provides background information on military UGVs and their technologies and what will be needed to develop the X4-Raptor.
• Chapter Two: Design methodology which goes in depth to describe how the design was carried out and how all components in the system were integrated to ensure the operation of the raptor.
• Chapter three: This section presents the raptor’s defense system and future modifications on the design and functionality of the X4-Raptor.

Problem Statement

Crime and war can never be avoided amongst humans, preparing for it is the only thing nations can do in order to survive an attack from other nations or rebel groups. Military artillery is quite expensive for a small country to have in numbers, this in turn puts the nation at a disadvantage in times of an attack.

Carrying out surveillance of target areas (criminal hide outs, rebel camps) or carrying out rescue operations of injured personnel minimizing human casualties as much as possible is a challenge which up the need to create low-cost unmanned military assault vehicles with the ability of target acquisition in addition to surveillance and safe transport pods for injured militants. These low-cost UGVs which can be controlled manually by an operator from a safe distance or navigate autonomously to execute its required tasks. These will stand in place of using multiple very expensive vehicles (e.g tanks) to carry out stealth missions and rescue operations effectively under human supervision.

Aims and Objectives

To design and implement a low-cost multifunctional unmanned military vehicle that can be controlled remotely.

1. To survey target areas especially areas which are unsafe for human militants.
2. To assists human militants, carry luggage and armor.
3. To be able to safely evacuate injured personnel.
4. To be able to provide support during shoot outs.

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